21.12.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

Here is our new Ride! The Poseidon Dive Center Car!

Suzuki Carry 1.6l Engine
100HP
Space for 10 Customers on the back!

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21.12.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

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15.12.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

This is the deepest known cave in Thailand and all of it is underwater. It is a very deep vauclusian resurgence with two surface pools which join underwater. The sump contains fresh water, even at -240m. There are several other deep resurgences in this area and the source of the water is not known.
The site was first dived by Matt London and the Thailand Cave Diving Project around 1993. The two surface pools were connected at a depth of 84m. These dives pushed the cave to a depth of -120m using open-circuit equipment. Exploration was resumed in December 2005 when Bruce Konefe, Cedric Verdier and Mike Gadd reached a depth of -150m using rebreathers. In May 2006 Verdier and Gadd extended the cave to -201m. The bottom of the sump was eventually reached by Ben Reymenants in November 2006 at a depth of -240m.
If you do this please ask us first. It is dangerous to dive in caves especially if you go deep! Instructors and divers lost there life in these cave.
But nevertheless there are also many Caves around to reach by foot on land. You’ll need torches to explore these caves and if you like Bats then this is a must!
All can be reached by walking from this lake!
If you have any questions please contact me!
Have lots of fun exploring undiscovered worlds!

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12.12.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

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2.12.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

Defending The Vandenberg from Ren Chapman on Vimeo.

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24.11.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:55 PM on 5th November 2010

Carlos Coste has created a new Guinness world record for freediving, after swimming 150 metres through a cave using no apparatus.

The Venezuelan was armed with only a torch and a monofin - a single giant flipper worn on both feet - when he made the death-defying dive on Wednesday.

The 34-year-old soared through a passage inside Dos Ojos, a colossal cave network that twists for 31 miles under Yucatan, Mexico.

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Record-breaker: Freediver Carlos Coste set a new Guinness world record by swimming 150 metres through a cave while holding his breath and using no breathing apparatus

Caught on camera by British underwater photographer Dan Burton, Mr Coste, from Caracas, has pioneered a new kind of record by taking the world of freediving into the underwater caves.

While only swimming at a depth of around seven metres, the record attempt could have killed the freediver as he swam through the cave while holding his breath.

Becoming trapped in the winding rocky passage could have been fatal.

Beginning at the surface, he dropped into a selected tunnel of the underwater system.

Using special swimming techniques he has honed to perfection over 12 years of freediving, he optimised strength, speed and energy conservation.

He said: ‘I have been doing competitive diving for ten years and this is by far the most bizarre run I have ever made.

Risking his life: Venezuelan Carlos Coste swam through the rocky passage at a depth of seven metres using a technique he has perfected in a dozen years of freediving

 ‘To achieve this is a dream come true for me. I have been interested in speleology (the study of caves) since I was a little boy and to combine this with my profession as a freediver was amazing.

‘I was not scared about it. We have planned this for a long time and I was fully prepared for what I had to do.

‘If something had gone wrong then there were emergency divers on hand.

‘They didn’t have a spare air supply down there for me. At critical times like that it would simply have been about getting me to the surface as quickly as possible.’

Mr Coste, who can hold his breath for seven minutes, completed his spectacular run in just two minutes and 30 seconds, emerging victorious at the other end of the chosen passage.

Speedy Gonzalez: Carlos Coste completed the run in just two minutes and 30 seconds but he can hold his breath for up to seven minutes

A rope that was laid before he began the attempt showed him the route. But in pitch darkness he needed to hold a torch in one hand so he could see it.

‘It’s not about speed,’ he continued. ‘It’s about striking a balance between many factors.

‘With monofins you can achieve the fastest speeds possible but for something like this you don’t want to be frantically kicking your way through the cave.

‘Inertia, displacement and modality are all massive factors and the optimal technique that has been perfected is to make two kicks, then glide, two kicks, then glide. You need to be in the best hydrodynamic position.

‘It really feels like you are flying through the cave and you have to adopt a position like Superman with your arms stretched out in front of you.

‘The adrenaline brings a massive rush. It makes me feel amazing to be involved in things like this.’

Success: Carlos Coste proudly poses after his death-defying world record attempt - which he has spent three years planning with his wife

Planned meticulously by his wife and manager Gabriela Contreras, 45, the extreme attempt has been three years in the making.

The pair selected the chosen tunnel a year ago and have since been preparing him for the attempt.

‘This hasn’t been done before,’ Mr Coste added. ‘But Guinness said I would need to make at least 75 metres to have a world record.

‘I doubled that so I hope they are satisfied that this should go into the books.’

In October 2003 he became the first person to achieve a free immersion (using no swimming apparatus and descending only by pulling on a rope) of more than 100 meters and descending only by pulling on a rope) of more than 100 metres.

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11.11.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

Unser Unternehmens Profil steht jetzt auch auf der sehr guten Plattform Xing!

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7.11.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

Project for an Artificial Reef from old C-47 Dakota Planes!
Please Donate so we can save and protect our Marine Life!

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30.10.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

A third of all animals and plants on earth face extinction — endangered blue whales, coral reefs, and a vast array of other species. The wave of human-driven extinction has reached a rate not seen since the fall of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

But there is a plan to save them — a global agreement to create, fund and enforce protected areas covering 20% of our seas and lands by 2020. Right now, 193 governments are meeting in Japan to address this crisis. But without public pressure, they are likely to fall short of the bold action needed to avert the collapse of ecosystems the world over.

This summit ends this week — we have no time to lose. Let’s rapidly build a global public outcry urging governments to save all life on earth from runaway decline. Sign the petition below and it will be delivered directly to the meeting:

To all parties of the Convention on Biodiversity:
One third of Earth’s species face extinction. We call on you to urgently agree to create, execute and fund the protection of 20% of our oceans and lands by 2020. Only bold and immediate action will protect our planet’s rich diversity of life.

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25.10.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Sea Shepherd Unveils Interceptor Vessel to Target Illegal Whaling

At a Hollywood fundraiser on Saturday night, we shared with supporters our desire to add the Ocean Adventurer to our fleet for our upcoming 2010-2011 Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign, Operation No Compromise.

The 12-year-old, 115-foot, stabilized monohull vessel would fill the role of fast interceptor, replacing the Ady Gil, the vessel that the Japanese whaling vessel Shonan Maru No. 2 deliberately rammed and destroyed on January 6th of this year.

This expedition will be our seventh campaign to oppose the illegal activities of the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean and we hope it will be our last season. During the past six campaigns, we have saved the lives of nearly 2,000 whales and exposed illegal Japanese whaling activities to the entire world. Last season, we were able to save more whales than the Japanese whalers were able to kill. Five hundred and twenty-eight (528) whales are alive and swimming in the sea because our supporters enabled us to intervene by underwriting our ships and crews.

Each year, because of our supporters, we have become stronger and more effective. Through patience, determination and persistence, we are driving the Japanese whaling fleet into debt and closer to the day they will retreat from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

We are confident that with your help, we will see our most effective campaign ever with Operation No Compromise. Our ships, the Steve Irwin and the Bob Barker, are currently being prepared for the campaign. We have recruited the best crew we can assemble. Our only challenge now is to raise the funds for the Ocean Adventurer.

With three ships, we will once again be able to track and intervene against the poachers in the Southern Ocean for the entire season. Our goal is to save more whales this coming season than we did during the last season and to shut down whaling in the Southern Ocean permanently.

Please help us save whales by supporting Operation No Compromise and make a donation today!

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21.10.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

Lots of Scuba Diving News, Pictures, Videos, Environmental Protection.

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27.8.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

• 19 August 2010
• Magazine issue

 
Age before beauty, when it comes to coral? (Image: Naoi/ Flickr/Getty)

JUST 600 meters away from the Great Barrier Reef, the jewel in Australia’s crown, a less spectacular but more ancient reef has been discovered.

The first hint of its existence came in 2007, when seismic and sonar measurements revealed odd ridges and lagoons on the seabed. Confirmation arrived in February this year, when an international team extracted 34 sediment cores from three sites on the seabed, revealing a fossilized coral reef that reaches 110 meters into the sea floor. Preliminary dating of the core indicates that the coral is up to 169,000 years old.

“This is the great-grandmother of the Great Barrier Reef,” says John Pandolfi of the University of Queensland, who was not on the mission. It is “a very important discovery”, he says, and should provide new insights into the genesis of the reef.

The prevailing wisdom has been that the Great Barrier Reef sits atop an older, dead reef, but 110 meters beneath the live reef, the team hit rock. Corals need light to live, and Pandolfi now thinks that when rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age threatened to put the lights out on the ancient reef, some larvae traveled to shallower waters and seeded the modern one.

The findings were presented by Jody Webster of the University of Sydney at the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program conference in Bremen, Germany, in July.

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5.8.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

• More population of Jelly fish as well as Sea-urchins through overfishing

• Lack of Oxygen Producer like Corals and water plants

We humans wont survive either!!

Please also sign my Online Petition to protect Sharks!
Thank YOU

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24.7.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

Halieutichthys aculeatus (Mitchill 1818)

Pancake Batfish threatened by the Louisiana Oil-Spill where its teritorial is placed!

Max. size: 100 mm (4in.)

Easily identified by: rounded disk, pectoral fin lobes connected to the tail by skin, reticular pattern on the dorsal surface, ventral surface of body naked.

Range and depth: North Carolina to northern South America, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Cuba, Venezuela, and the Bahamas in 0 - 421 meters (0 - 1389 feet) (Miller 1965, Bullis and Struhsaker 1970, McEachran and Fechhelm 1998).

Habitat: occurs on substrata consisting of hard sand and coral, sand and sandy clay, or sandy mud with shell debris (Richards and Bradbury 1999).

Feeding: polychaete worms, small crustaceans (e.g. mysids), and small gastropods (Winans 1975, Nagareda 2005, Nagareda and Shenker 2008).

Ogcocephalus declivirostris Bradbury 1980

Slantbrow Batfish

Max. size: 137 mm (5.4 inches) (McEachran and Fechhelm 1998)

Easily identified by: rostrum slopes downward (not upwards or horizontal) with respect to the long axis of the body, pectoral fins translucent and taper to a point (not rounded) (Bradbury 1980).

Range and depth: northern and western Gulf of Mexico in 3.5 – 180 meters (11.55 – 594 feet) with one specimen recorded from the Straits of Florida at 388 meters (1280.4 feet) (Bradbury 1980).

Feeding: primarily tiny gastropods, specifically Nassarius sp, and Cosmioconcha calliglypta (Nagareda 2005, Nagareda and Shenker 2008).

Ogcocephalus pantostictus Bradbury 1980

Spotted Batfish

Max. size: 310 mm (12.2 inches) (McEachran and Fechhelm 1998)

Easily identified by: pattern of dark spots over the entire dorsal surface of the body.

Range and depth: north and west Gulf of Mexico, from Mobile Bay, Alabama to Tampico, Tamaulipas (Mexico) in 9-31 meters (29.7-102.3 feet) (Bradbury 1980).

Feeding: gastropods (Cosmioconcha calliglypta, Kurtziella sp., Oliva sayana), xanthid crabs and swimming crabs (Callinectes similis) (Nagareda 2005, Nagareda and Shenker 2008).

Other notes: rostrum characterized by ontogenetic allometry (very long in juveniles, then shortens with growth to become very short in adults
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14.7.2010 von Daniel Sasse.

More Pictures here! 

TDEX 2010 great success in Bangkok for TDA (Thailand Diving Association) & Poseidon Dive Academy Thailand Krabi Ao Nang

Daniel Sasse and Yuphin Phiranam have had a lot of interessted customers on the Booth and where busy during the four days of the Scuba Diving Expo not only promoted the TDA but also the amazing Dive Sites in the Southwest of Thailand Phi Phi and Local Islands close to Ao Nang

This year TDA presents also additional information on mono fin swimming directly given by the Thai National Coach Mr. Vladimir Karmazin who three times won the World Championships already.
Further information you will find of course on the best diving spots all around Thailand!

Mr. Maik Rudolph, TDA BOD Member, was – as the years before – organizer and leader of TDA booth at TDEX 2010 in Bangkok.
With his idea to present the new discipline of fin swimming beside all information about diving in Thailand he could attract many visitors to the booth!
Therefore especially at the weekend all TDA Team was very busy to provide interesting information to everybody.
For more details on Free- & Apnoe diving click here or contact us directly here!

There were also Environmental Organisations like Greenfins Thai Environmental Reef Check ect. Who showed on how to prevent littering and wasting the Ocean with Movies and little tricks which actually help a lot!

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